Suspected Islamic militants on Sunday have shot dead three Chinese workers in the Pakistani city of Peshawar; while badly injuring a fourth worker. Armed with guns and bellowing religious slogans, these perpetrators attacked the Chinese men at a small...

Nigerian kidnappers on Sunday, released Margaret Hill, a three-year-old British girl, who was abducted in southern Nigeria four days ago. She is reunited with her family after undergoing medical examination at the hospital. Her parents Mike and Oluchi...

A third nuclear plant scheduled to come up in Olkiluoto, an island on Finland’s western coast, finds itself wedged between realizing the country’s increasing need for energy and the European Union’s goals to control the climactic...

A lightning near Winnemucca triggered wildfires of varying severity on Sunday as they raged across the western United States. Firefighters found themselves scurrying to prevent the flames as the intense blazes spread across California, Arizona, Nevada,...

The genetic analysis of Clostridium difficile, the most deadly of hospital superbugs and its close relatives is under way at the University of Nottingham; undertaken by Professor Nigel Minton and his team in the Centre for Healthcare Associated...

The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday sent a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission criticizing them for keeping documents about a private company called Nuclear Fuel Services, from the public. The committee chairman, Representative...

India’s agenda of fighting terrorism has taken a new dimension this time. Raising concern over a terror plot in Britain which opened out the involvement of three Indians, PM Manmohan Singh claimed that India and its neighbouring state Pakistan...

The organizers of Live Earth have come under severe criticism recently for their so called efforts in creating a pollution free green earth. Their alleged aims of bringing about a climate channge have been questioned by the fact that Live Earth will be...